While details of Espinosa’s escape remain unclear, it appears that the reporter was smuggled out of the country this afternoon after managing to make the dangerous journey out of Homs unharmed, according to The Guardian.

Espinosa’s escape comes a day after British photographer Paul Conroy, who was working in Homs with Colvin and was injured in the shelling round that killed her and Ochlik, was smuggled into Lebanon by activists, some of whom were killed in the operation.

Two French journalists, Edith Bouvier, a freelance correspondent, and William Daniels, a photographer, were both believed to remain trapped in the city on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

France has called on the Syrian government to instigate a ceasefire in Baba Amr – which has been under constant shelling for 25 days – to enable the journalists to be safely evacuated. Bouvier’s femur has been shattered in the shelling.

On Tuesday the United Nations updated its death count for the conflict for the first time since January, estimating that more than 7,500 people have been killed over the last year since a popular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began.